STRATEGY BEHIND ALL THIS

We (FASTMOM & I) wanted to move to the country for along time for the more active life style, see wildlife and just generally more peaceful. In order to do this the dollars had to work just right, needed to find the "just right" fixer upper and still be livable, with some sort of shop, either ready to go or something I could make into a shop. This property fit our goals. We've always been environmentally conscious so with the wood burning boiler being a renewable energy heating source was a real scoop for us. We have LP also but that will be our backup.  Purchasing a used outdoor boiler with enough capacity to heat our house, FASTMOM'S garage and the shop meant we had to get a good chain saw, log splitter, and a source for logs. Now that we're in (we moved in January this year when it was like 15 to 20 below!) the goal is to get the shop built out enough to get heat in it before the deep cold sets in. It's going to be close, I'm working on it all the time and the temp is starting to cool off pretty good. The pic is our boiler this past winter, heating just the house. I'll post more pics about the shop buildout and house improvements.